For the next couple of weeks or so, I’ll be putting up the next batch in the ever popular series of Guitar Riffs for Ukulele. For those not familiar with it, the idea of these isn’t to play the full song, but throw the riffs in to give yourself or your audience a bit of a giggle at an hearing something they never expected to hear coming from a ukulele. Most of them are not written in the original key but the key that suits the ukulele the best.

hi. i got a ukelele for christmas and i’ve really enjoyed learning a nice familiar song like this, so thankyou.

however i have a question! how come you’ve chosen to use fretted strings when an equivalent open string is available? for example, am i right in thinking the 4th fret of the C is an E? i found it a lot easier to play this with my slow dopey hands if i swapped in the open strings for their fretted equivalents.

is there any disadvantage to doing it my way, or have i done something silly like read the notation wrong or mistune the uke?